The crawl is a real-time display of contributions… Here we have it showing for all recipients (charitable AND political) but in a larger implementation this could be broken down by category or other criteria. This data capability is also central to The Chagora Live Debate Function

This Site is for Demonstration ONLY

(While this site is fully practical with credit card gateway, associated bank accounts, etc., the current credit crisis resulted in a loss of anticipated funding for administration at launch and a need for investment before reliable and secure administration allows release to the general public.)

• Individually-Controlled/Commons-Dedicated Account useful for BOTH Charity and Political Contribution in ALL legal amounts.
  
  
• Individual funds account with minimum of $10 but there need be no lower limit on the individual's disbursements.
  
  
• Chagora pays transaction fees with account deposits, MicroDonations are aggregated and recipient reimburses Chagora for a transaction fee equivalent to the fee for a similar contribution. Chagora is Transaction Neutral! (In other words, there is NO additional cost to Donors or Recipients for transaction via Chagora)
  
  
• For political contribution Chagora automates legal reporting requirements for FEC and/or other entities.

• Political MicroDonation, especially networked, has unrecognized potential as a tool for interest groups in fundraising whether for lobbying, general organizing or other purposes. It's potential in lobbying especially will catalyze a feedback loop expanding both general political participation and the use of this platform.
  
  
• Political MicroDonation is also very attractive and useful in candidate selection and giving the citizen opportunity for issue by issue response in debate situations via the LiveDebate function.
  
  
• Political MicroDonation, by being combined with a similar capability for Charity and by being useful for ALL contribution in legal amounts (not only micro) creates a flocking tendency which vastly expands the base participating in contribution and Chagora.
  
  
• And leads to Chagora as a natural destination for ALL donors and recipients, even the completely apolitical… because of the advantages of unified reporting and accounting, corporate/charity sponsorships and benefits, feedback capability, selection and localization.

The hot debate now is in healthcare and industry lobbyists are giving it their all… $35 million in the latest quarter…

Just 10 % of the electorate giving 25 cents a week for that period is $30 million… could it happen?

While Chagora may be too late for this debate… it WILL! And politics will never be the same…

Millions of people who finally realize that they can take back their public square once they have the ability to speak in a way that really works for them. And when will that happen? When YOU can give a quarter to a politician or cause easily and legally… and do it with others through a non-partisan and neutral vehicle, when it is no longer a rare event because it takes so little, when they know YOU are listening more often than just once every four years. and want to speak on many issues. Then YOU will have your public square back where it belongs… in YOUR HANDS! Because YOU are MILLIONS.